PROMISS

> Theme: Malnutrition

> Timeline: April 2016 – March 2021

> Key Words: malnutrition, healthy ageing

Description

PROMISS stands for “PRevention Of Malnutrition In Senior Subjects in the EU”.

In Europe, 90-95% of older adults live at home. Among them, about 21% is malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. PROMISS therefore aims at conducting research on prevention of malnutrition among older persons living at home, thus providing concrete recommendations for an active and healthy life-style also in later years. To achieve this mission, a multi-disciplinary international consortium will pursue the following objectives, divided in two phases: the understanding of the context and, based on this, the development of solutions to prevent malnutrition.

Final objectives

Understanding relationships between food, physical activity, biological changes among older persons
Using large scale databases, the project will start by identifying the relationships between food intake, food characteristics, physical activity, the oral and gut microbiota, and poor appetite, malnutrition and poor health among older adults.

Developing dietary and physical activity strategies and new food concepts and products
Based on the outcomes of the research, PROMISS will develop optimized, sustainable and evidence-based dietary and physical activity strategies to prevent malnutrition and support active and healthy ageing.

With the help of SMEs and industry involved in the project, PROMISS will also design new food concepts, new food products and electronic support systems that fit within these newly developed dietary strategies. It will offer to food industry evidence-based knowledge to develop food products and concepts, and reformulate and/or re-market existing products to strengthen their global market position.

Partners

Coordinator: Stichting VU/VUmc (VU/VUmc), the Netherlands

Partners:

University of Iceland (UI), Iceland

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (UNEW), United Kingdom

National Institute for public health and the environment (RIVM), the Netherlands

Syddansk Universitet (SDU), Denmark

Goteborgs Universitet (UGOT), Sweden

Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), the Netherlands

VIVES University College (VIVES), Belgium

Ghent University (UGENT), Belgium

HAS University of Applied Sciences (HAS), the Netherlands

Kellogg Management Services (KG), United Kingdom

Laboratoires Grand Fontaine (LGF), Spain

Blonk Consultants (BC), the Netherlands

Frigilunch (FL), Belgium

Henri (Hi), the Netherlands

University of Helsinki (UH), Finland

The European Federation of the Association of Dieticians (EFAD), the Netherlands

European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN), Luxembourg

European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS), Belgium

Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen (FAU), Germany

AGE Platform Europe (AGE), Belgium

Université de Sherbrooke (US), Canada

AGE involvement

AGE coordinates the dissemination efforts and will share the project's outcomes, in particular the recommendations, among older persons and policy-makers.

Contact

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